The panelists were there, sure, and what
a panel. But the Waiting for Ground Zero panel discussion
that Architectural Record hosted on January 7th, 2003,
(read about it here,
or watch the event online) brought out a whole slew of other
luminaries, enough to fill the McGraw-Hill Auditorium to overflowing.
Photographer Dorothy Alexander captured the evening and the
people in crisp black and white.

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on the images to enlarge them.

James McGraw IV, Group Publisher,
McGraw-Hill Construction

Robert Ivy,
Editor-in-chief, Architectural Record

Bernard Tschumi,
Dean, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation,
Columbia University

Paul Goldberger, Architecture
Critic, The New Yorker

Richard Kahan, President
of the Urban Assembly and Take the Field

Craig Whitaker, Architect
and planner

Stan Allen, Dean, School
of Architecture, Princeton University, and member of SOM
team